Whilst the idea flies in the face of all accepted doctrine I have seen it work first hand.
Towards the end of a Turing live training exercise my battalion (minus) was tasked to seize an urban area with a short timeline to plan. We had just moved to a new part of the training area and were fortunate enough to be in close enough proximity to have the company commanders close in on the Main CP. In about an hour we ‘Chinese parliamented’ a workable plan which worked well on the ground. This cut through a lot of the staff process ‘crap’ that military education continues to push. I suspect the unit lost points on the planning process test but won those points back on the execution/outcome side of the ledger where it really counts.
In the training environment it’s a great way for leaders to learn. In the operational environment it’s a faster way to plan that is more likely to survive contact with the enemy. So why isn’t this method taught - at least as a potential alternative to the hierarchical, layered and fractal system we currently use…
Whilst the idea flies in the face of all accepted doctrine I have seen it work first hand.
Towards the end of a Turing live training exercise my battalion (minus) was tasked to seize an urban area with a short timeline to plan. We had just moved to a new part of the training area and were fortunate enough to be in close enough proximity to have the company commanders close in on the Main CP. In about an hour we ‘Chinese parliamented’ a workable plan which worked well on the ground. This cut through a lot of the staff process ‘crap’ that military education continues to push. I suspect the unit lost points on the planning process test but won those points back on the execution/outcome side of the ledger where it really counts.
In the training environment it’s a great way for leaders to learn. In the operational environment it’s a faster way to plan that is more likely to survive contact with the enemy. So why isn’t this method taught - at least as a potential alternative to the hierarchical, layered and fractal system we currently use…